From nation to diaspora : Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the cultural performance of gender / Curdella Forbes.
Material type: TextPublication details: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, c2005.Description: x, 305 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9789766401719 (pbk.) :
- Selvon, Samuel -- Criticism and interpretation
- Lamming, George, 1927- -- Criticism and interpretation
- West Indian literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism
- Gender identity in literature
- Culture in literature
- Feminism and literature -- West Indies
- 810.997 29
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Roseau Public Library West Indian Collection | Reference | W.I. 810.997 29 For (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | 18110 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The necessity of gender: Selvon, Lamming and the re-imagination of culture -- Representations of gender in the nationalist period: images, foundations and performances -- Representing exile: the flight from gender in Selvon's Lonely Londoners, Moses Ascending and the Housing Lark -- Going home: performing masculinity in A Brighter Sun and Turn Again Tiger -- The construction of gender as anti-colonial discourse: Lamming's Of Age and Innoncence and Season of Adventure -- Theorizing the feminine and the body in Natives of my Person and The Emigrants -- All this, diasporic and the postmodern.
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